Natasha Jonas and Lauren Value went head-to-head when recording a brand new version of the Gloves Are Off forward of their March 7 world title unification.
Jonas and Value will combat for the WBC, IBF and WBA welterweight championships on the Royal Albert Corridor, stay on Sky Sports activities.
Value, an Olympic gold medallist and the holder of the WBA belt, advised Jonas instantly she anticipated to win each spherical of their contest.
The Welsh star is but to drop a spherical in her skilled profession, and intends to maintain that run entering into her subsequent combat.
“I believe that,” Value advised Sky Sports activities afterwards.
She added: “I believe it’s my toughest test. It’s just another stepping stone. I do believe that I am too good and I’m too quick.”
Jonas dismissed that suggestion although.
“It doesn’t matter until we’re in the ring,” mentioned Jonas. “She keeps on saying these things. But you’re putting pressure on yourself to back it up.
“You are not going to lose a spherical? Okay, properly what occurs when spherical one goes and you have misplaced it? What are you going to do then, since you mentioned you were not going to lose a spherical? What occurs then in spherical two, three, 4, 5, six?
“I would expect you to win every round for the opposition that she’s had.”
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After their world title unification combat on the Royal Albert Corridor was introduced, Value says she’s ‘over the moon’ that she’ll lastly be capable to tackle Jonas within the ring
Jonas insisted Value’s declare truly betrayed an absence of self-confidence.
“I do. I think she has to tell herself that to make herself believe it. To be like: ‘Right, I’ve got this,'” the Liverpudlian mentioned. “You’re trying to convince yourself.
“I simply suppose you are geeing your self up. You are telling your self: ‘I can do it.’ That is what I consider she’s doing.
“I’m not buying it.”
